I get it. It’s like an accident on the side of the highway. Everyone slows down to see the carnage.

But just like a car crash, failed IPOs are nothing more than a distraction.

A distraction from great moneymaking opportunities.

You probably know about Beyond Meat (BYND) by now, which got its fifteen minutes of fame earlier this year when it soared 859% in less than three months.

But when’s the last time you heard CNBC talk about CrowdStrike (CRWD)?

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity technology company that went public in June. Cybersecurity isn’t a sexy business. So, its IPO didn’t get much press.

But it should have. CrowdStrike’s share price has tripled two months after going public.

Shockwave Medical’s (SWAV) explosive IPO has also been overlooked. Shockwave is a medical services device company that went public in March. Its share priced zoomed more than 300% during its first three months.

Keep in mind, the S&P 500 is up 8% over the past year…

Even if you’d bought just one of these big winners, you’d be blowing the average investor out of the water.

Of course, anyone can “cherry pick” a few big gains to prove a point. So let me give you the full picture...

Since October 2017, 21 IPOs are stillup at least 100%. I emphasize still because markets have been a little shaky lately. But not nearly shaky enough to erase all those triple-digit IPO gains.

The best of this bunch delivered returns of 1,393%, 535%, 433%, and 315%.

And you didn’t have to do anything special to grab these gains. You didn’t have to be a venture capitalist, a Wall Street insider, or be a “high-roller” client of Goldman Sachs.

If you had a brokerage account, these profits were available to you. All you had to do was buy these stocks shortly after their IPO day.

Still, some folks think Uber or WeWork “killed” the IPO market…

These folks are wrong.

Eight companies have gone public since WeWork shelved its failed IPO a few weeks ago.

Three more are set to go public later this week.

And that’s just a taste of what’s to come. According to Renaissance Capital, 31 companies have filed or updated paperwork to go public in the last 90 days.

And let’s not forget…

Airbnb just announced its plan to go public in 2020. Airbnb is one of the world’s most disruptive companies. It was most recently valued at $35 billion—making it the fourth biggest US “unicorn!”

A unicorn is a private company worth at least $1 billion…

They’re called unicorns because they used to be rare. But that’s no longer the case.

According to CB Insights, there are now 402 unicorns. Together they’re worth more than $1.3 trillion.

Many of these companies are eying the public markets and planning their IPOs.

And what most people don’t realize is most of today’s unicorns aren’t startups.